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I think a lot of this was social engineering, but at one time the fbi considered mitnik some kind of super hacker. How did that disconnect happen? I imagine because his targets didn’t want to admit to the fbi how crappy their security was, so they would just say omg! We got hacked!

Big moments I remember from his book.

1. Gaining access to a telco C/O and social engineering his way out after being caught

2. Ultimately being caught by sloppy practices himself, logging into systems he was comfortable with and getting traced, and then forgetting some sort of identification in a ski jacket he hadn’t used in a long time, which was in his closet in a place he was living under a new identity.

It’s been awhile so I could be partly off on those details. But I’d say at least those pieces are very believable.